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I am part of this network, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. The (not very snappy) title pretty much sums it up. It’s an exciting group of people with exciting ideas and I’m very pleased to be part of it. We’ve met once at Fountains Abbey and we meet again in February . . . → Read More: Reflecting on Environmental Change through Site-based Performance Since moving to the Southside of Glasgow I’ve always cast a sad and longing eye at the disused bandstand in Queens’ Park. I live a stones throw from the Victoria Road gate of Queen’s Park and therefore two stones throws from the bandstand. It’s not a grand Victorian structure or much more than a . . . → Read More: The Bandstand in Queen’s Park Courtesy of Roger Boughton, this is the recording of the tadpoles mentioned in the earlier post (Tadpoles sound like sausages). . . Thanks Roger! Last weekend I had a fantastic time at the Kindrogan Field Studies Centre on their first ‘Wildlife Sound Recording’ course. We were under the learned and expert instruction of Roger Boughton and Phil Riddett who are both part of the Wildlife Sound Recording Society. Doing the course was justified as work for a new . . . → Read More: Tadpoles sound like sausages Another One and Other Blog 22 August 2009 I’ve copied the text below. ‘The plinth has changed my life’ 00:10 GMT, Sunday, 23 August 2009 The Edinburgh Festival has taken over my life. Completely. I have had a show running since the start of the festival (‘Funny’) and on Monday there will be the . . . → Read More: Another One and Other Blog This is a repost of my blog entry on the One and Other website. The original is at: http://www.oneandother.co.uk/blog/2009/07/on-and-off-the-plinth.html 4pm last Saturday (11 July) I did my hour, and thoroughly enjoyed it. I enjoyed walking around the plinth for a while beforehand, the preparations with the hospitable and efficient staff, the journey on . . . → Read More: On and off the plinth On 11 July 2009 I spent an hour on the fourth plinth of Trafalgar Square as part of Anthony Gormley’s ‘One and Other’. During my hour I wrote a ten minute play inspired by the ‘Tank Man’ of the Tiananmen Square demonstrations of 1989. ‘Tank Man’ will be performed by Gillian Lees at the . . . → Read More: Tank Man My blog on the One&Other website. This one is about my plans for the day itself – writing ‘Tank Man’. http://www.oneandother.co.uk/blog/2009/07/tank-man-on-the-plinth.html Download the Artist as Leader Research by Professor Anne Douglas and Chris Fremantle. I’ve been working with a group of students at Williamwood High School on the history of slavery in Scotland using photography. The students took photographs at Greenbank House in East Renfrewshire and at what is now the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow, but what was once the mansion of one of the tobacco . . . → Read More: Heritage Slavery Project – East Renfrewshire |
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